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Re:Feds: Chinese spies orchestrated hack that stole aviation... by kodablah on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @05:46PM (#18349533)
> Apparently a major contributor to their downfall was all of the IP being stolen

If a company is heavily dependent upon existing IP then having it all stolen will be a major contributor to their downfall. But so is that dependence. Hard to make suggestions without appearing to victim blame, but companies need to be able to survive even without secrets.

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Re:Feds: Chinese spies orchestrated hack that stole aviation... by exnorrtel on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @05:51PM (#18349558)
I didn't want to pin the downfall of Nortel completely on the IP being stolen and being outmanoeuvred in deals.

During the dot-com bust they also lost a bunch of money selling carriers equipment on credit and that is when the tough times and inability of the executives to right the ship began.

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Re:Feds: Chinese spies orchestrated hack that stole aviation... by oh_sigh on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @06:19PM (#18349701)
Why? If you follow that standard, you are basically saying that no R&D should ever be done, because you may just get it stolen and lose any kind of benefit you would derive from doing the R&D in the first place.
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Re:Feds: Chinese spies orchestrated hack that stole aviation... by kodablah on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @06:30PM (#18349758)
That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying don't build an overly large dependence on past R&D where resting on those laurels threatens the whole company if theft occurs.
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Re:Feds: Chinese spies orchestrated hack that stole aviation... by DataWorker on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @08:24PM (#18350440)
Couldn’t the new R&D be stolen as well? It sounds like you don’t like Coca Cola classic.
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Re:Feds: Chinese spies orchestrated hack that stole aviation... by cwkoss on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @07:20PM (#18350041)
A company who "goes out of business because their IP was stolen" was already going out of business before it was stolen.
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